While
the screening of the Prisoner TV series remake fast approaches, Director
Christopher Nolan (left) has pulled out of the proposed movie remake.

Speaking
to "Cinefools" Producer Barry Mendel said; "Chris Nolan
has dropped out of it but we have a first draft by David and Janet Peoples
who wrote Twelve Monkeys and David wrote Unforgiven and it's a good draft
and we're working on the script right now." Speaking of the TV series
he stated; "If the series was wildly popular that might affect us
but the screenplay that David and Janet wrote was such a re-imagination
of the series, if you think of The Avengers that wasn't a commercially
successful film but it was very much in the spirit of the original show."

He
continued "This looks and feels so different that the tenants (sic)
of the show are apparent but the execution of it is so different that
I think it is unrecognisable, whereas the TV show is a well done, modernly
shot updated version of the original show, but much more faithful to the
original show."